Who is my Neighbor?

[Rose]

In Luke 10:27 Jesus tells the lawyer that the summation of the law is contained in “loving your neighbor as yourself”. The lawyer then proceeds to query Jesus and asks “who is my neighbor?” to which Jesus replies by reciting the parable of the Good Samaritan, implying that anyone regardless of race is your neighbor. This answer is a much more expanded interpretation of neighbor then one finds in the Old Testament version, which only applied to ones Hebrew brethren. Now, to carry the meaning of neighbor one step further we need to ask if women were included in the general idea of ones neighbor. Did loving your neighbor as yourself apply to women? I think the answer is obviously not, because nowhere in the Bible are women treated in the same manner as men would want to be treated.

Jesus might very well have included women in his understanding of neighbor, but we know for certain that neither Paul, nor Peter did by the words that they wrote in these verses.
1Cor.11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Eph.5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

1 Tim. 2:11-14 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Titus 2:4-5 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1Peter 3:1-7 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;



Under no circumstances would men feel they were being treated in a manner equal to loving one neighbor as oneself, if the roles were reversed and those verses instead read “Husbands, submit yourselves unto your own wives in everything”. What a far different society we would live in today if the Golden Rule of treating ones neighbor as themselves had been taken to apply equally to women as well as men. My motive in bringing up these questions are to try and encourage people to look at the religious teachings they so blindly follow and find out what their sacred texts really contain. I believe most people –especially men - would be very surprised to know just how biased the Bible really is.


Rose

[weeder]

Hi Rose
Obviously yes., Jesus included Women ...and little children.:)

The Spirit of God would not allow me to be a bad samaritan to a woman or a child. Both men and woman sought Jesus healing, and he was a good samaritan to both on every occasion. Let the little children come to me..none of this ladies first going on..:winking0071:



1Cor.11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Christ is part of God, just as woman is part of man. Christ is equal with God, and has every right to be considered just as much God as his Father is. Same goes for Woman, as God created MAN male and female.


Eph.5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

This should be a pleasure and a privelidge, but only if the man is subject to Christ. The Church ( men ,woman, children) are subject to Christ, so i dont see the woman having any probs.


Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her. Wouldnt the woman want to submit to this kind of Love? Obvously man has no right to read into this verse that he is superior to the woman, and look upon the woman as a slave.


1 Tim. 2:11-14 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Some things are best done together. Let the man and the woman be in silence before Christ.



Titus 2:4-5 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

As long as the man is obedient to Christ, all should be well.

I hope your surprised at the way i see the texts and what they contain.:lol:

"Let him who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying"...is a far cry from manipulating and piecing together religous texts to say what you want them to say, in order to justify some heirachy among the followers of Christ who are meant to be one in him.